1:07:01
Nine months?
1:07:03
The length of a pregnancy, yes.
1:07:06
I gather the poem was hard to deliver.
1:07:09
Even with me. Without me, impossible.
1:07:12
- Doctor, he wrote no poem last summer.
- But he died last summer.
1:07:17
Without me, he died.
1:07:19
That was his last summer's poem.
1:07:22
Mrs. Venable, how exactly
did your son die?
1:07:27
I told you, a heart attack.
1:07:30
Is that what the letter said?
1:07:32
How did Catherine know
I received a letter?
1:07:36
Catherine? She knows very little.
1:07:39
She can't remember.
1:07:41
That's her illness. She was there,
but she can't remember.
1:07:45
- Mrs. Holly told me about it.
- So you've seen her too, have you?
1:07:48
I must say, you have been observing.
1:07:51
There was no letter,
only a death certificate.
1:07:54
- I'd like to see that if...
- Why?
1:07:56
I think it's important. I want to know
what happened the day your son died.
1:08:01
You shall have it tomorrow.
1:08:04
And tomorrow you shall also have
the permission to operate.
1:08:07
And now I'd better go.
1:08:09
I've got lawyers waiting for me.
1:08:12
You'd think giving you a building was
simple. Apparently, I must sign papers.
1:08:16
But I'm used to it.
Sebastian never signed anything.
1:08:20
- He must have suspected...
- Mrs. Venable.
1:08:23
Your son...
1:08:25
What about my son?
1:08:27
What sort of personal life
did he have?
1:08:31
He was chaste.
1:08:33
- You mean he was celibate?
- Yes.
1:08:38
You don't believe me, do you?
1:08:41
- Do you believe that he never...?
- Yes, never.
1:08:43
As strictly as if he'd taken a vow.
This sounds like vanity, doctor...
1:08:49
...but I was actually
the only one in his life...
1:08:52
...that satisfied the demands
he made of people.
1:08:56
Time after time, he'd let people go,
dismiss them...
1:08:58
...because their attitude
toward him was not as...